Type-writer ribbon.



C. M. TAYLOR, In.

TYPE WRITER RIBBON.

APPucATxoN FILEDJUNE 2o, |918.

Ly Patented Apr. 1,1%9:

CHARLES M. TAYLOR, J i OF MAPLE SHADE, NEW JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITER RIBBON.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919.

Application filed J une 20, 1918. Serial No. 240,964.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES- M. TAYLOR,

' Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Maple Shade, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, `have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-lrVriter Ribbons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide simple, inexpensive and easily manipulated means for putting a new ribbon on a type-writer and threading it through the necessary openings and guides and attaching it to the ribbon feed without soiling the fingers.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the embodiment of it chosen from other embodiments for the sake of illustration in the accompanying drawings in I which- Figure l, is a more or less diagrammatic view, partly in section, illustrative of the invention.

Fig. 2, is a top or plan view of a bodkin embodying features of the invention and in open position.

Figj, is a similar view showing the operation of attaching the bodkin tothe end of the ribbon, and

Fig. 4, is a similar View showing the bodkin and ribbon ready for application to a type-writer.

The bodkin consists of a folded strip of paper, stiff linen cloth orequivalent material having on each side of the fold similar internally gummed pol-tions 1 and 2,' adapted to embrace and adhere to the end 2%, ofthe ribbon and to each other beyond the end of the ribbon constituting a pliable yet sufficiently stiff threading point 4. As shown the,similar portions 1 and 2, are generally wedge'shape so that the bodkin, as a whole,

is also of wedge shape but this is not essen-v tial. The leading feature of the bodkin is that it terminates in a pliable yet sutiiciently stitl" threading point 4, and is provided with a gummed end portion for each attachment to the endof a type-writer ribbon. By ft threading point is meant that the point or point portion is through, a strip of paper, linen or like material and therefore can be bent as shown 4in Fig. l. to pass it up through the opening 5, and then threaded through the guide 6, and then passed through the fastening 7, so that the prong of the latter can be pnt through the end of the ribbon whereupon the bodkin, having served its purpose, can be cut ofi' `after the new ribbon has been thus applied.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that n'lodiiications may be made in details without departing from 'the spirit of the ilwention and it is not the intention to limit the invention otherwise than as the appended claim and the I prior art may require.

What I claim is:

A bodkin for typewriter ribbons consistingv of a tapered strip of folded paper gummed on the inside and adapted to cover and adhere to both inked faces of the end of a ribbon and to provide a two-ply tapered threading point beyond the end of the ribbon. substantially as described.

CHARLES M. TAYLOR. .Tn 

